MUTTs for The Trouble with Lemons Due
Book Review
Introduction to character poster
Tuesday
Workshop - character poster
Wednesday - Thursday
Presentations - character poster
Friday
Introduction to research and social studies research project
Week of April 16th
Monday - Friday
Continue reading and MUTT - The Trouble with Lemons
Week of April 9th
Monday
Review Code of Test Takers on PSSAs
PSSA Rhyme
Review Chapters one - three A Trouble with Lemons
Read Chapter four - MUTT
Tuesday
Review chapter four
Read chapter five - MUTT
Wednesday
Review chapter five
Read chapter six - MUTT
Thursday
Review chapter six
Read chapter seven - MUTT
Friday
Review chapter seven
Reading chapter eight - MUTT
Week of April 2nd
Monday - Tuesday
No School - Easter Break
Wednesday
Introduction to A Trouble With Lemons
Read chapter one - students will MUTT on a separate piece of paper
Thursday - Friday
Review chapter one Students will read chapters two and three and MUTT
Week of March 26th
Monday - Tuesday
Students will write an ode and create an illustration to display.
Wednesday
Reading Day
Thursday - Friday
No School - Easter Break
Week of March 19th
Monday
Review Narrative Poetry Discuss Form Poetry: Haiku and Symbol and Theme Read "Two Haiku," "Fireflies," and "Fireflies in the Garden"
Tuesday
Review "Two Haiku," "Fireflies," and "Fireflies in the Garden" Read "Stars with Wings" Introduce Poetry TDA
Wednesday - Thursday
TDA - Poetry and Nonfiction - Google Classroom
Friday
Reading Day
Week of March 12th
Monday
Students will review poem with a classmate and write a final draft and upload on google classroom.
Tuesday
Students will share poems with a group via google classroom. Students will choose best poem to share with the entire class.
Wednesday - Thursday
Rhyme and Rhythm Students will read "Annabelle Lee" and respond to the poem. Students will write their own poem that uses rhyme and rhythm.
Friday
Reading Day
Week of March 5th
Monday
Unit Eight Vocabulary due - Review
Tuesday
Unit Eight Vocabulary Test
Wednesday - Friday
Reading and Writing Poetry "Names" by Billy Collins and free verse, imagery and memorials. Students will write their own poem as a memorial.
Week of February 26th
Monday
Introduction to Unit Eight vocabulary - due next Monday
Tuesday - Wednesday
PSSA Prep question
Introduction to cause and effect in nonfiction
Read, Mutt and respond to the margin questions: "Like Black Smoke: The Black Death's Journey" and "A World Turned Upside Down: How the Black Death Affected Europe."
Thursday
Students will complete a PSSA style test on the selections on The Black Death. It will have multiple choice questions and one TDA that will be a short answer.
Friday
Reading Day
Week of February 19th
Monday - Tuesday
PSSA question of the day
Discuss theme, nonfiction and author's purpose
Students will read and review "It's Not About the Bike" and "23 Days in July"
Wednesday
Selection Test - "It's Not About the Bike" and "23 Days in July"
Thursday
Study Island - Spelling and Punctuation
Friday
Reading Day
Week of February 12th
Monday
Period 2 - Selection Test - "What do Fish Have to Do with Anything?" and Study Island Period 3 - Reading Day
Tuesday
PSSA Question of the Day Students will read "Homeless" and respond to the margin questions
Wednesday
Review "Homeless"
Thursday - Friday
Students will take a selection test on "Homeless" and write a TDA on both "What do Fish Have to Do with Anything" and "Homeless"
Week of February 5th
Monday
Review Brian's Song TDA Share and discuss CDT results Introduction to PSSA question of the day - students will read "The Farm the Ran and Came Back Again" and answer PSSA style questions
Tuesday
PSSA Question of the Day Introduce and discuss Theme Read "What Do Fish Have to do with Anything?" and respond to questions in the margins
Wednesday
PSSA Question of the Day Review "What Do Fish Have to do with Anything?""
Thursday
PSSA style selection test - "What Do Fish Have to do with Anything?"
Friday
Study Island - Verbs and Fragments and Run-On Sentences
Week of January 29th
Monday - Friday
Students will watch Brian's Song. As the students watch, they will take notes about similarities and differences between the teleplay and the film. Students will use Google Classroom to submit an essay about the similarities and differences - due at the end of the day on Friday.
Week of January 22nd
Monday-Tuesday
Read Part Two - Brian's Song.
Wednesday
Review/discuss Brian's Song - Test Tomorrow
Thursday - Friday
Test/TDA - Brian's Song AR
Week of January 15th
Monday
No School - Teacher Inservice
Tuesday - Thursday
Students will continue to read Brian's Song
Friday
Study Island Topics - Varied Sentence Structure and Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers AR
Week of January 8th
Monday
Unit Seven Vocabulary packet due
Tuesday
Unit Seven Vocabulary Test
Wednesday - Friday
PSSA Question of the day
Introduction to drama - Brian's Song.
Week of January 1st
Monday
No School - Winter Break
Tuesday
Introduction to Unit Seven Vocabulary - Due next Monday
Wednesday - Friday
CDTs
Week of December 18th
Monday - Thursday
Return/Review TDA - students will identify why they received the score. Introduction to creation myth and mythology. Students will read "Prometheus" and "Orpheus" and discuss as a class. In groups, students will create a creation myth and write a skit about that myth. Students will perform that skit for the class.
Friday
Reading Day
Week of December 11th
Monday
Describe Theme and Compare and Contrast Students will read "Amigo Brothers" and respond to the margin questions
Tuesday
Review margin questions
TDA tomorrow
Wednesday
Students will write a TDA responding to "Amigo Brothers" - due tomorrow
Thursday
TDA due
Study Island
Friday
Reading Day
Week of December 4th
Monday
Review "A Retrieved Reformation" - students will participate in creating a tableaux for presentation.
Tuesday
Introduction to TDAs Students will write a TDA in response to "A Retrieved Reformation"
Wednesday
Peer review of TDA and class discussion AR Review
Thursday
Unit Six Vocabulary Due
Friday
Test on Unit Six Vocabulary
Week of November 27th
Monday
No School
Tuesday
Introduction to Unit Six Vocabulary
Wednesday - Thursday
Introduce and discuss third person point of view Students will read "A Retrieved Reformation" and discuss importance of third person point of view.
Friday
Study Island - Task, Audience and Purpose and Precise Language and Sensory Details
Week of November 20th
Monday
Unit Five Vocabulary due
Tuesday
Unit Five Vocabulary test
Wednesday
Reading Day
Thursday - Friday
No School - Thanksgiving break
Week of November 13th
Monday
Introduction to "The Scholarship Jacket" - Margin questions due on Wednesday
Tuesday
Introduction to unit five vocabulary
Wednesday
Review "The Scholarship Jacket"
Thursday
Selection Test on "The Scholarship Jacket"
Friday
Study Island Topics: Transitions and Organizing Ideas
Week of November 6th
Monday - Tuesday
Presentations - Argumentative Essay
Wednesday
Study Island - Organizing Ideas and Transitions
Thursday
Reading Day
Friday
No School - Parent/Teacher Conferences
Week of October 30th
Monday
Students will revise, edit and rewrite their argumentative rough draft.
Tuesday - Wednesday
Students will film their final copy of their argumentative paper to present to the class.
Thursday
Unit Four Vocabulary Due
Friday
Unit Four Vocabulary Test
Week of October 23rd
Monday - Wednesday
Introduction to argumentative writing. Students will write an argument responding to the prompt on page 163. Prewriting activity due on Tuesday and rough draft due on Thursday.
Thursday
Peer Review - Argumentative Writing - Students will create a video blog as a final draft next week
Friday
Study Island Day - Introducing and closing topics/Supporting and Developing topics
Week of October 16th
Monday - Wedensday
Students will read "Thank You Ma'am" with a group and prepare a skit that presents the elements of story (plot, character, setting, point of view and theme) from that story. They will prepare Monday and Tuesday and present on Wednesday.
Thursday
Unit Three Vocabulary Packet due
Friday
Unit Three Vocabulary Test
Week of October 9th
Monday
No School - In Service
Tuesday
"Rikki-tikki-tavi" margin questions due Review "Rikki-tikki-tavi" and discuss Plot Triangle
Wednesday
Selection Test - "Rikki-tikki-tavi"
Thursday
Introduction to Unit Three Words
Friday
Reading Day
Week of October 2nd
Monday
Unit Two Vocabulary Packet Due
Tuesday
Unit Two Vocabulary Test
Wednesday - Friday
Introduction to using suspense in story
Partner Read - "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"
Week of September 25th
Monday
Introduction to Unit Two Vocabulary - due Monday, October 2nd.
Tuesday - Thursday
How does setting effect plot? Read and review "The Last Dog" with a partner. Review "The Last Dog" Setting Graphic Organizers Plot Triangle and "The Last Dog"
Friday
Test on "The Last Dog."
Week of September 18th
Monday
Students will complete the Study Island pre test.
Tuesday - Thursday
CDTs
Friday
Story Round - students will do a class write of a teacher prompted story and share with the class.
Week of September 11th
Monday - Wednesday
Introduce MUTTin up the text. Students will read "Seventh Grade" Review "Seventh Grade" and the plot triangle.
Thursday
Test on "Seventh Grade"
Friday
Reading Day
Week of September 4th
Monday
No School - Labor Day
Tuesday
Rough draft of narrative essay due.
Peer Edit
Wednesday
Students will write a final draft of their narrative essay - due tomorrow.
Thursday
Unit One Vocabulary Due
Friday
Unit One Vocabulary Test
AR
Week of August 28th
Monday
Students will present their "I Am" poems to the class.
Tuesday
Introduction to Unit One Vocabulary
Wednesday
Introduction to The Writing Process
Introduction to Narrative Writing
Prewriting due tomorrow
Thursday
Review Narrative Writing Students will write a rough draft of a narrative essay.
Friday
Students will finish narrative draft Study Island Pretest Vocabulary Unit One Review
Week of August 21st
Monday
No school - In Service Day
Tuesday
Welcome back to school! Introduction to Journals Classroom Expectations
Internet Acceptable Use Policy Appropriate Use of Personal Devices Remind
Monday - Friday
Social Studies Project
Week of April 30th
Monday - Friday
Library Research
Social Studies Project
Week of April 23rd
Monday
MUTTs for The Trouble with Lemons Due
Book Review
Introduction to character poster
Tuesday
Workshop - character poster
Wednesday - Thursday
Presentations - character poster
Friday
Introduction to research and social studies research project
Week of April 16th
Monday - Friday
Continue reading and MUTT - The Trouble with Lemons
Week of April 9th
Monday
Review Code of Test Takers on PSSAs
PSSA Rhyme
Review Chapters one - three A Trouble with Lemons
Read Chapter four - MUTT
Tuesday
Review chapter four
Read chapter five - MUTT
Wednesday
Review chapter five
Read chapter six - MUTT
Thursday
Review chapter six
Read chapter seven - MUTT
Friday
Review chapter seven
Reading chapter eight - MUTT
Week of April 2nd
Monday - Tuesday
No School - Easter Break
Wednesday
Introduction to A Trouble With Lemons
Read chapter one - students will MUTT on a separate piece of paper
Thursday - Friday
Review chapter one
Students will read chapters two and three and MUTT
Week of March 26th
Monday - Tuesday
Students will write an ode and create an illustration to display.
Wednesday
Reading Day
Thursday - Friday
No School - Easter Break
Week of March 19th
Monday
Review Narrative Poetry
Discuss Form Poetry: Haiku and Symbol and Theme
Read "Two Haiku," "Fireflies," and "Fireflies in the Garden"
Tuesday
Review
"Two Haiku," "Fireflies," and "Fireflies in the Garden"
Read "Stars with Wings"
Introduce Poetry TDA
Wednesday - Thursday
TDA - Poetry and Nonfiction - Google Classroom
Friday
Reading Day
Week of March 12th
Monday
Students will review poem with a classmate and write a final draft and upload on google classroom.
Tuesday
Students will share poems with a group via google classroom. Students will choose best poem to share with the entire class.
Wednesday - Thursday
Rhyme and Rhythm
Students will read "Annabelle Lee" and respond to the poem.
Students will write their own poem that uses rhyme and rhythm.
Friday
Reading Day
Week of March 5th
Monday
Unit Eight Vocabulary due - Review
Tuesday
Unit Eight Vocabulary Test
Wednesday - Friday
Reading and Writing Poetry
"Names" by Billy Collins and free verse, imagery and memorials.
Students will write their own poem as a memorial.
Week of February 26th
Monday
Introduction to Unit Eight vocabulary - due next Monday
Tuesday - Wednesday
PSSA Prep question
Introduction to cause and effect in nonfiction
Read, Mutt and respond to the margin questions: "Like Black Smoke: The Black Death's Journey" and "A World Turned Upside Down: How the Black Death Affected Europe."
Thursday
Students will complete a PSSA style test on the selections on The Black Death. It will have multiple choice questions and one TDA that will be a short answer.
Friday
Reading Day
Week of February 19th
Monday - Tuesday
PSSA question of the day
Discuss theme, nonfiction and author's purpose
Students will read and review "It's Not About the Bike" and "23 Days in July"
Wednesday
Selection Test - "It's Not About the Bike" and "23 Days in July"
Thursday
Study Island - Spelling and Punctuation
Friday
Reading Day
Week of February 12th
Monday
Period 2 - Selection Test - "What do Fish Have to Do with Anything?" and Study Island
Period 3 - Reading Day
Tuesday
PSSA Question of the Day
Students will read "Homeless" and respond to the margin questions
Wednesday
Review "Homeless"
Thursday - Friday
Students will take a selection test on "Homeless" and write a TDA on both "What do Fish Have to Do with Anything" and "Homeless"
Week of February 5th
Monday
Review Brian's Song TDA
Share and discuss CDT results
Introduction to PSSA question of the day - students will read "The Farm the Ran and Came Back Again" and answer PSSA style questions
Tuesday
PSSA Question of the Day
Introduce and discuss Theme
Read "What Do Fish Have to do with Anything?" and respond to questions in the margins
Wednesday
PSSA Question of the Day
Review "What Do Fish Have to do with Anything?""
Thursday
PSSA style selection test - "What Do Fish Have to do with Anything?"
Friday
Study Island - Verbs and Fragments and Run-On Sentences
Week of January 29th
Monday - Friday
Students will watch Brian's Song.
As the students watch, they will take notes about similarities and differences between the teleplay and the film.
Students will use Google Classroom to submit an essay about the similarities and differences - due at the end of the day on Friday.
Week of January 22nd
Monday-Tuesday
Read Part Two - Brian's Song.
Wednesday
Review/discuss Brian's Song - Test Tomorrow
Thursday - Friday
Test/TDA - Brian's Song
AR
Week of January 15th
Monday
No School - Teacher Inservice
Tuesday - Thursday
Students will continue to read Brian's Song
Friday
Study Island Topics - Varied Sentence Structure and Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers
AR
Week of January 8th
Monday
Unit Seven Vocabulary packet due
Tuesday
Unit Seven Vocabulary Test
Wednesday - Friday
PSSA Question of the day
Introduction to drama - Brian's Song.
Week of January 1st
Monday
No School - Winter Break
Tuesday
Introduction to Unit Seven Vocabulary - Due next Monday
Wednesday - Friday
CDTs
Week of December 18th
Monday - Thursday
Return/Review TDA - students will identify why they received the score.
Introduction to creation myth and mythology.
Students will read "Prometheus" and "Orpheus" and discuss as a class.
In groups, students will create a creation myth and write a skit about that myth.
Students will perform that skit for the class.
Friday
Reading Day
Week of December 11th
Monday
Describe Theme and Compare and Contrast
Students will read "Amigo Brothers" and respond to the margin questions
Tuesday
Review margin questions
TDA tomorrow
Wednesday
Students will write a TDA responding to "Amigo Brothers" - due tomorrow
Thursday
TDA due
Study Island
Friday
Reading Day
Week of December 4th
Monday
Review "A Retrieved Reformation" - students will participate in creating a tableaux for presentation.
Tuesday
Introduction to TDAs
Students will write a TDA in response to "A Retrieved Reformation"
Wednesday
Peer review of TDA and class discussion
AR Review
Thursday
Unit Six Vocabulary Due
Friday
Test on Unit Six Vocabulary
Week of November 27th
Monday
No School
Tuesday
Introduction to Unit Six Vocabulary
Wednesday - Thursday
Introduce and discuss third person point of view
Students will read "A Retrieved Reformation" and discuss importance of third person point of view.
Friday
Study Island - Task, Audience and Purpose and Precise Language and Sensory Details
Week of November 20th
Monday
Unit Five Vocabulary due
Tuesday
Unit Five Vocabulary test
Wednesday
Reading Day
Thursday - Friday
No School - Thanksgiving break
Week of November 13th
Monday
Introduction to "The Scholarship Jacket" - Margin questions due on Wednesday
Tuesday
Introduction to unit five vocabulary
Wednesday
Review "The Scholarship Jacket"
Thursday
Selection Test on "The Scholarship Jacket"
Friday
Study Island Topics: Transitions and Organizing Ideas
Week of November 6th
Monday - Tuesday
Presentations - Argumentative Essay
Wednesday
Study Island - Organizing Ideas and Transitions
Thursday
Reading Day
Friday
No School - Parent/Teacher Conferences
Week of October 30th
Monday
Students will revise, edit and rewrite their argumentative rough draft.
Tuesday - Wednesday
Students will film their final copy of their argumentative paper to present to the class.
Thursday
Unit Four Vocabulary Due
Friday
Unit Four Vocabulary Test
Week of October 23rd
Monday - Wednesday
Introduction to argumentative writing.
Students will write an argument responding to the prompt on page 163.
Prewriting activity due on Tuesday and rough draft due on Thursday.
Thursday
Peer Review - Argumentative Writing - Students will create a video blog as a final draft next week
Friday
Study Island Day - Introducing and closing topics/Supporting and Developing topics
Week of October 16th
Monday - Wedensday
Students will read "Thank You Ma'am" with a group and prepare a skit that presents the elements of story (plot, character, setting, point of view and theme) from that story. They will prepare Monday and Tuesday and present on Wednesday.
Thursday
Unit Three Vocabulary Packet due
Friday
Unit Three Vocabulary Test
Week of October 9th
Monday
No School - In Service
Tuesday
"Rikki-tikki-tavi" margin questions due
Review "Rikki-tikki-tavi" and discuss Plot Triangle
Wednesday
Selection Test - "Rikki-tikki-tavi"
Thursday
Introduction to Unit Three Words
Friday
Reading Day
Week of October 2nd
Monday
Unit Two Vocabulary Packet Due
Tuesday
Unit Two Vocabulary Test
Wednesday - Friday
Introduction to using suspense in story
Partner Read - "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"
Week of September 25th
Monday
Introduction to Unit Two Vocabulary - due Monday, October 2nd.
Tuesday - Thursday
How does setting effect plot?
Read and review "The Last Dog" with a partner.
Review "The Last Dog"
Setting Graphic Organizers
Plot Triangle and "The Last Dog"
Friday
Test on "The Last Dog."
Week of September 18th
Monday
Students will complete the Study Island pre test.
Tuesday - Thursday
CDTs
Friday
Story Round - students will do a class write of a teacher prompted story and share with the class.
Week of September 11th
Monday - Wednesday
Introduce MUTTin up the text.
Students will read "Seventh Grade"
Review "Seventh Grade" and the plot triangle.
Thursday
Test on "Seventh Grade"
Friday
Reading Day
Week of September 4th
Monday
No School - Labor Day
Tuesday
Rough draft of narrative essay due.
Peer Edit
Wednesday
Students will write a final draft of their narrative essay - due tomorrow.
Thursday
Unit One Vocabulary Due
Friday
Unit One Vocabulary Test
AR
Week of August 28th
Monday
Students will present their "I Am" poems to the class.
Tuesday
Introduction to Unit One Vocabulary
Wednesday
Introduction to The Writing Process
Introduction to Narrative Writing
Prewriting due tomorrow
Thursday
Review Narrative Writing
Students will write a rough draft of a narrative essay.
Friday
Students will finish narrative draft
Study Island Pretest
Vocabulary Unit One Review
Week of August 21st
Monday
No school - In Service Day
Tuesday
Welcome back to school!
Introduction to Journals
Classroom Expectations
Internet Acceptable Use Policy
Appropriate Use of Personal Devices
Remind
Wednesday
Library Introduction
Thursday
I Am Poem - FInal Due on Monday
Friday
Reading Day